Massimo Bianchini, Politecnico di Milano Venanzio Arquilla, Politecnico di Milano Stefano Maffei, Politecnico di Milano Alessandro Carelli, Politecnico di Milano

FabLand. ‘Making’ (digital/analog) distributed urban production ecosystems Fab10, Barcelona, 2-8 July 2014

Could distributed microproduction be a tool for

territorial development?

STRUCTURE OF THE PRESENTATION

1.  Theoretical premise 2.  3 ongoing case studies 3. Conclusions and further

developments

THEORETICAL PREMISE

Microproduction is everywhere1

+ Every territory has its own capital2

1 Bianchini, M., Maffei, S. (2013). ‘Microproduction everywhere. Social, local, open and connected manufacturing’. Social Frontiers NESTA Conference, London, UK, 4th-5th November. 2Villari, B. (2012) Design per il territorio. Un approccio community centred. Francoangeli, Milano.

THEORETICAL PREMISE

Microproduction is everywhere { 1.  Systemic openness

2.  Widespread Interactivity

3.  Community enabling 4.  Fractal organization 5.  Social learning

SYSTEMIC OPENESS img. source: www.wikihouse.cc

•  Open design •  Open machines •  Open materials •  Open hardware •  Open knowledge

(open innovation)

WIDESPREAD INTERACTIVITY img. source: unfold.be/pages/projects/artisan-electroniqu

•  From tinkering to things •  From bits to atoms •  From codes to products •  From frames to things

•  Interactive making •  Haptic technologies

COMMUNITY ENABLING img. source: www.makerfairerome.eu/en/

•  Micro-networks •  Alliances •  Associations

FRACTAL ORGANIZATION

•  Flat Hierarchies •  Automorphism •  Cellular-network •  Granularity

SOCIAL LEARNING source: http://artisansasylum.com

•  Tinkering •  Learning by using

P2P education •  Tutorials

THEORETICAL PREMISE

“the territorial capital is the combination of elements (tangible and intangible)

available to a territory, and which may represent strengths or necessary conditions

for the valorisation of the territory.”

Villari, B. (2012) Design per il territorio. Un approccio community centred. Francoangeli, Milano.

THEORETICAL PREMISE

5 layers of territorial capital

Source: Villari, B. (2012) Design per il territorio. Un approccio community centred. Francoangeli, Milano.

1 Know How and Identity 2 Human resources and activities 3 Phisical resources

4 Governance 5 External relationship

THEORETICAL PREMISE

what does ‘production’ stand for within the theoretical framework just outlined?

THEORETICAL PREMISE what does ‘production’ stand for ?

It shifts from production of value… (for instance goods, services)

THEORETICAL PREMISE what does ‘production’ stand for ?

to production as a value (empowering local communities by enabling them to fabricate what they exactly need, habilitating social learning processes as well as give value to the territorial capital.)

img. source: http://fablab.waag.org/  

CASE STUDIES

{ •  FARB-MakeFactory www.makefactory.org/farb

• Maker Hub BRNZ Upcoming link

• Make in Progress www.makeinprogress.org

www.makefactory.org

CASE STUDIES FARB - MakeFactory

{ •  The relationship between design and new production technologies;

•  The relationship between design and new networks of production.

Make Factory is a research lab which investigates the relationship between design, making and new models of productions.

CASE STUDIES Self-Production

the act of designing, prototyping, producing and selling your own designs in an autonomous way..

img. source: www.dirkvanderkooij.nl  img. source: www.behance.net/gallery/ 7420871/MusicInk-Learn-the-Music-Play  

CASE STUDIES Making@PoliMi – A full-immersion production workshop

6 different design team

CASE STUDIES Making@PoliMi – A full-immersion production workshop

the WS focussed on the realization phase rather than the concept-generation one;

CASE STUDIES Making@PoliMi – A full-immersion production workshop

A temporary makerspace within the Design School connected to the Laboratory System of the Design Department.

CASE STUDIES Makerspace BRNZ img. source: http://analogicodigitale.it/

CASE STUDIES Makerspace BRNZ

14,3 km

Politecnico Di Milano

Makerspace BRNZ (Cesano MB)

CASE STUDIES Make in Progress

25,7 km

Politecnico Di Milano

Make in Progress (Sulbiate MB)

CASE STUDIES Make in Progress

Call for Ideas   First workshop  

CASE STUDIES Make in Progress

CASE STUDIES Make in Progress – Ideas we received (Subiate has 4000 inhabitants)

•  19/34 Were ideas that people would have liked to create for fun or passion (not entrepreneurial ideas);

•  11/34 Were entrepreneurial ideas ;

•  4/34 Were people that had no ideas to implement (at the moment) but would much like to collaborate with us.

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CONCLUSIONS

•  FARB-MakeFactory Combining Making + Design, experimenting self-production, as well as connecting self-producers with Design Department resources;

•  Maker Hub BRNZ Connecting local enterprises with innovators;

•  Make in Progress Bringing back creativity and entrepreneurship into Sulbiate district.

Production as a value { 1.  Not only economical value

but also cultural, social and environmental in relation to the territorial own capital;

2.  Enabling local communities and activating learning processes;

3.  Bring together citizen and local policymakers to define new policies related to specific problems.

CONCLUSIONS

FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS

FabLand?

How can distributed micro production for territorial development be sustainable?

THANKS

Venanzio Arquilla venanzio.arquilla@polimi.it

Massimo Bianchini massimo.bianchini@polimi.it

Alessandro Carelli alessandro.carelli@polimi.it

Stefano Maffei stefano.maffei@polimi.it

www.makefactory.org